--- title: Asking "are you sick?" in a sneer means "are you sick in the head?";… — Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said · tree and pragmatics description: Asking "are you sick?" in a sneer means "are you sick in the head?"; among close friends it can be a light "you're crazy!", but it is easily heard as an insult. Who acts: you, Asking, friend. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Asking, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:024-words-that-hurt.lesson:10 # text = Asking "are you sick?" in a sneer means "are you sick in the head?"; among close friends it can be a light "you're crazy!", but it is easily heard as an insult. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 024-words-that-hurt.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ _ 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sneer sneer NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 22 among among ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 crazy crazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:appos 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 40 easily easily ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 42 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 insult insult NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | a sneer | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | sick *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | Asking | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | the head | | sick *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | can | friend | a light | | | | among close friends | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | crazy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **hear** | present · passive | | friend | | | | as a insult; easily *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:chinese-street:024-words-that-hurt.lesson:10`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Words that hurt — what they mean, neve…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/9/) - next →: [Words that hurt — what they mean, neve…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/)